Which is to say you can have all the hubris in the world and you will still push your greatness and agenda on others.

A humble man knows when to hold his tongue, the arrogant man filled with hubris let’s it wag. ( I don’t mean you, I would not be so callous.) I refer to the 49% ish who voted to maintain the abuse of a broken system by a pathological bellicose liar infatuated with his own presence in which they find succor. This represents their ‘greatness’? I see this as far from admirable or praise worthy, let alone to be elevated to the status you seem to suggest. (My house, already at close to 200 years will stand longer)

I would happily refute the League of Nations restrictions and the individual countries whose pursuit of their own agendas led to yet another of man’s tragedies, though my interest has waned.

Having visited the cities obliterated by America’s desire to prove themselves, and unlike your suggestion, I would not wish that on any nationality. All nations have skeletons in their closets: Japanese and Nanking, English in the Boer war concentration Camps, Cambodia and Pol Pot, the United States and it indigenous population, Canada and the imprisonment of Japanese. No country is pristine in its past behavior, nor are religions, but I find distasteful those that effuse their greatness yet lack the humility to honestly examine their own past.

I wish you luck with your writing.